Example sentences of "people have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not like nowadays when people has big fridges |
| 2 | It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population . |
| 3 | This religion of the people has some similarity to Calvin 's theology of the city of God on earth , though in a more modern and less rigorous setting than the one which Calvin tried to realize in his lifetime in the city of Geneva : |
| 4 | A closer look , however , would probably show you that each of these people has some talent or experience that is useful either in carrying out public relations or directly relevant to the client for whom they work . |
| 5 | In one way they should do something about people having second homes and make it more , that they get more tax out of them or something |
| 6 | It 's going to put the erm actual availability up quite a bit of people having that fax there |
| 7 | There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war … |
| 8 | The application of QALY theory would result in old people having less chance of cardiac surgery than younger people for two main reasons : firstly , the operation is likely to have a higher mortality and morbidity for older people ; secondly , older people have in general a shorter life expectancy and therefore fewer life years to gain from the operation . |
| 9 | The mind that can not conceive the benefits to accrue by a coming together and a binding by paternal ties of a people having common sympathy must be wayward indeed . |
| 10 | To loads of people having heavy breasts means you are an ‘ easy lay ’ , or else it supposedly equals having no intelligence . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean we 're not in the position to do what some of the , certainly I know some of the banks do , which is to guarantee a job after five years , let people have five years , you know , the maternity leave plus a guaranteed job at the end of another four when the kids start school , on the proviso that you can call them in if you need them within that period , for a bit of extra help . |
| 12 | Do people have clear beliefs and expectations about who should inherit , and how assets should be divided ? |
| 13 | They were well clear of Dunkirk when he said : ‘ Do n't these people have any phone boxes ? ’ |
| 14 | My God surely they do n't need ordinary people to have new words , they just look around in universities ! |
| 15 | You 're always saying it 's antisocial for people to have second homes or leave property empty . |
| 16 | They did n't want working people to have decent clothes . |
| 17 | Credit unions , while initiating from the wish of people to have greater control over their own affairs , do not come into existence spontaneously . |
| 18 | When she corrected my accent one evening she said , " It 's all right for other people to have regional accents but not for oneself " I puzzled over this . |
| 19 | So pragmatism may be an eligible interpretation of our legal practice after all , if it turns out that our judges declare people to have legal rights only , or mainly , when a self-consciously pragmatist judge would pretend that they did . |
| 20 | It takes two people to have safer sex in a relationship . |
| 21 | They felt that such schemes allowed young people to have direct experience of engineering rather than relying purely upon second-hand information ( from teachers or the media ) . |
| 22 | And erm I think too , some ways of allowing people to have more power over their own lives , and not just being at the mercy of agencies , such as social services and erm |
| 23 | The provision of family allowances , which could have been interpreted ( at least indirectly ) as encouraging people to have more children , hardly commended itself . |
| 24 | Meanwhile France and Belgium are trying to encourage people to have more children in an effort to revitalise their flagging economies . |
| 25 | So in later years , when opportunities might arise for young disabled people to have some choices and to have more say , they have no basis for such autonomy . |
| 26 | People who ‘ expect ’ older people to have worsening health or to ‘ decline ’ in their faculties , may not have a positive approach to various ways of coping with physical and mental changes . |
| 27 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 28 | When you saying , you saying that people had two points in their lounge |
| 29 | ‘ During the war , ’ he said , ‘ people had other things to think about . |
| 30 | Working people had new expectations as to just rents and as to the housing conditions they should enjoy ( encapsulated in the political slogan " homes fit for heroes " ) . |